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		<title>&#8220;Easy Product Slideshows&#8221; Shopify app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on RaRu Design&#8217;s website, we wanted a simple Flash slideshow that would rotate through certain product images.  I whipped one up in Flex that suited our needs.  It was a little wonky, using a alternate Liquid template to render the Product objects in JSON, which could then be read by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2010/03/02/easy-product-slideshows-shopify-app/</link>
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		<title>Sending Munin Alerts to Jabber/XMPP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What
Have munin send alerts to a Jabber server.

Why
Email is great for interpersonal communication, but it doesn't make sense as the medium for every communication that crosses your path.  It is confusing to interleave emails from people (that need responses) with email alerts sent from servers (which never need an email response).  While both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2010/01/08/hooking-up-munin-alerts-to-jabberxmpp/</link>
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		<title>Better know a HTTP Response Code: The Fightin&#8217; 307</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In tonight's episode of "Better know a HTTP Response Code" we'll be checking out "307 Temporary Redirect."  This ain't your mother's temporary redirect (assuming she primarily uses the more common "302 Temporary Redirect").  The good ol' w3c has this to say in their HTTP 1.1 spec thingy:

10.3.8 307 Temporary Redirect
The requested resource resides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/12/11/better-know-a-http-response-code-the-fightin-307/</link>
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		<title>Quick download benchmarks with CURL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLAIN TEXT
CODE:




curl --silent -w "Total:&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; %{time_total}\nDNS:&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; %{time_namelookup}\nConnect:&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; %{time_connect}\nPretransfer:&#160; &#160; %{time_pretransfer}\nRedirect:&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;%{time_redirect}\nStart Transfer: %{time_starttransfer} \n" --output /dev/null google.com 






 That's about all there is to it.  Toss it in your ~/.bash_login thusly:
PLAIN TEXT
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alias dl='curl --silent -w &#34;Total:&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/12/07/quick-download-benchmarks-with-curl/</link>
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		<title>Skipping gem documentation: configure .gemrc to speed up gem installation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The .gemrc file can specify default options for the 'gem' executable, and since I haven't ever looked up ri or rdoc on my local system, I decided to turn these off by default.  I've been adding the '--no-ri' and '--no-rdoc' flags for a while, but my laziness just got the better of me.
Turning of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/12/06/skipping-gem-documentation-configure-gemrc-to-speed-up-gem-installation/</link>
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		<title>Checking gzip/deflate server responses with CURL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx and Apache can gzip/deflate content as it is leaving the server, which decreases the amount of data that has to cross the wire and therefor speeds up communication with the server.  This can't be turned on for all requests, however, because not all clients know how to decompress the responses. Most commonly, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/11/08/checking-gzipdeflate-server-responses-with-curl/</link>
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		<title>Murder Turtle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dirty Bird!


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		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/08/07/murder-turtle/</link>
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		<title>Going to Gem Med School: Open Source ruby projects with Dr. Nic Williams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grooving with Dr. Nic, and digging in to some projects
Going with the Flow
Despite my feelings that the title Dr. should be strictly reserved for those that save lives, Dr. Nic Williams does have plenty of good advice to offer (and he offers it in a nice format on his website).  After having made some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/08/07/going-to-gem-med-school-open-source-ruby-projects-with-dr-nic-williams/</link>
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		<title>File size discrepency for empty files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a peculiar discrepancy between the size of an empty file in different operating systems.  Not sure what is going on yet, but for some reason RHEL 4 boxes seem to think that an empty file is 4 kilobytes, where OS X and Ubuntu think it is 0 bytes.  Hmmm.  
Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/08/06/file-size-discrepency-for-empty-files/</link>
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		<title>Mr T. Pitties the Fool who is still using RHEL 4.</title>
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Despite the fact that RHEL4 was initially release on the first day of my life I could legally drink a brew, or maybe because of that fact, I am bitter about RHEL 4.  A single dog year is comparable to 7 human years, right?  So what is one linux year?  Should it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/08/04/mr-t-pitties-the-fool-who-is-still-using-rhel-4/</link>
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